bcron-run for Debian
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This package sets up the bcron-sched, bcron-spool, and bcron-update
services to provide the Debian cron functionality mandated by Debian
policy 9.5.  This includes support for the /etc/crontab file and the
/etc/cron.d/ directory, as well as the crontab(1) program as user
interface, and support for the /etc/cron.hourly/, /etc/cron.daily/,
/etc/cron.weekly/, and /etc/cron.monthly/ directories.

The bcron services including their logs are handled through runit, and
so enabled automatically on package installation and system boot.  Use
the sv(8) program to control a service or print its status information.
See the runit package's documentation for details, e.g.

 # sv status bcron-sched
 run: bcron-sched: (pid 11169) 14528s; run: log: (pid 11168) 14528s
 # sv restart bcron-sched
 ok: run: bcron-sched: (pid 11188) 0s
 # sv status bcron-sched
 run: bcron-sched: (pid 2423) 4s; run: log: (pid 11168) 55s
 # 

Logs are written to the /var/log/bcron/, /var/log/bcron/spool/, and
/var/log/bcron/update/ directories, through the svlogd(8) program.
Configure the logs through the ``config'' file, and access the recent
log entries through the ``current'' log file in these directories, see
the svlogd(8) man page for details, e.g.

 $ less /var/log/bcron/current

 -- Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>, Sat, 02 Apr 2005 12:40:26 +0000